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A Wedding in tne Family I I My African Mother - SyivaraWaters ll The Fight PRO HELVETIN GI" Lauren Groenewald 12 Lady was a Mashoza Nat Nakasa A Natrve of Ncwnere l2 IfiIiY' . lssues of Faith lr ARTS COUNCIL OF SWITZEBLAND Baby Fathers I 2 lsibande LindyWilson 14 The Second Wife The Guguletu Seven l4 Music in lslam -; E}: Altered States :::::::Itp. - Rough Ride 15 ::::::: Errtrsh The Light Ahead l5 A Letter to my Cousin in CH 1: v ::::::: council CindmaVdritd Defining the Moment l6 -The Man who would kill Kitchener Sunless l5 Schedule ; Waitrng for Harvey l7 Panelists 2' We wish to thank all those who have Encounters Laboratory to make half made such pleasure affordable. Pro hour documentaries.We are proud Helvetia (the Swiss Arts Council) that three ofthese fllms have been began it all last year and we thank nominated for an Avanti Award, e.tr THE DOCUMENTARY is more than sound bites of expert opinion Peter da Rin and lnes Anselmi in will commission anothertwo Close Zurich lYirlam Asmal in Cape Encounters 2O0O candidates to direc or late night television wallpaperl the format is not limited by subject and Town for their continued support.This their flrst film.We thank them for thr matter or style as the line-up of titles on this Festival demonstrate. year y'a are very grateful to Hans continuing commitment to new Sou' Life and larger than life, dreams and fantasy philosophy and bel$aiV Gr"uU"no tne Royal Netherlanos African fllmmakers,Two of last year's I lives and inner lives, war and peace, good times, bad times, present Embassy in Pretoria & Claudia winning candidates, Eddie Edwards a I times, past times and preoccupations, fly-on-the-wall, in your face, Landsberger and Holland Film, and Cathy Winten will be in Cape Town l docu-soap, soft-soap and hard-hitting, revealing and revelatory, inspired to.Jo Maurice & Gail Learmont and the present the fllms and talk about the go Laboratory.Thank to Sasani for thei and inspiring.The breadth is breathtaking. So, welcome to the second British Council for helping us truly lnternational.Thank you to Nico generous contribution to the future Encounters South African lnternational Documentary Film Festival. vin der Merwe and the staff of projects of these four filmmakers. Cinema Nouveau Waterfront for Karen Thorne helped write the the use of their facilities and for programme notes and arrange the encouraging Documentary Festival discussions, Molly Slingsby is the This is a Live Event...most of the fllmmakers who will present their audiences with low ticket prices.Tim production manager and has ensure, filmmakers will be in town in the first work are Lauren Groenewald, Munier Atkinson generously supplied the video the smooth running ofthe event,Tar week to introduce their fllms and Parker; Shareef Cullis, Akiedah and audio equipment. We thank the Bester is the designer ofthe answer your questions. Our guest Mohammed, Cas Rasch, Lungiswa French lnstitute in South Africa for programme and poster:We thank filmmakers from abroad are Niek Sithole, FrancoisVerster and Don their contribution. them all for their hard work. Koppen and Hillie Molenaar (Holland), Edkins. Debate is an important part of Last year e.tv commissioned four first- Patricia Plattner (Switzerland) and Paul this Fedival and so we have invited time directors who attended the Close Nodi Murphy & Steven Moko Watson (Brrtain),Their fllms will all academics, the people who were have their South African premidres at filmed and concerned members of the GENERAL INFTIRMATTON this Festival, ln addition we have two communities portrayed to .o.,lia All shows Rl2 ' No other discounts apply 6 seats 97 with access for 2 wheelchairs World Premidres - LindyWilson's dlscuss issues raised in these films,They. Cine Cine 3 seats 70 with access for 2 wheelchairs Guguletu Seven and Norrottve of Bevoyol and you, are what will make this event Cinema Nouveau,Watedront 425 82 22 I 3 by Craig Matthew & Ronelle Loots. a real celebration and we are pleased Computickec 430 90 l0 Among the other South African to welcome you all. Festival Oftice:448 06 08 Sttui Holland l99Z 60min Video trir, Niek Koppen ln 1922 Loui M'Barick Fall was the first black man to

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Niek Koppen's destiny was sealed at the 194), was influenced by the fact that hrs explore, from the inside, the increasingly three age of l5 when his mother took him to mothers first husband was krlled in the secretive, comPlex and fascinating continents can recount tales of Battlir tne crnema to see Fellini's SoLyricon. By battle. world of English foxhunting set against Siki, each presenting their own for interpretation, Siki, the unbeatable iae age of l7 it was the work of Johan His style evolves and is informed by the the background of public outcry the hero, intelligent "savage", t 'Jan 3er Keuken that pointed him in the subject matter with which he is dealing, banning of this blood sport.The film African the : '?::ra. of hrs true vocation: but one thing remains constant; a quiet follows the Ludlow Hunt in middle fighter against racial discrimination. Sik walking the c.. --e^:a...r Koppen graduated from observant and omnipresent camera, anc England over a full season. Never the extravagant dandy :.e D-rc- F 1n and Television Academy in his ability to tell a story through visuals before has a film crew been given such boulevards of Paris with a leopard,th loving husband and father; the Amstercar ^ 98 l The Hunt illustrates his uncanny ability tc access to the workings of a hunt.The lnfluencec r. :^e C ^ema Verite get so close to his subject matter that ( result is a shocking, at times moving, womaniser and bigamist Using uniqur movement ofthe 50s and 70s, Koppen reveals itself warts and all, wrthoLrt document which reveals incidents like film and photo matedal, interviews ar was attracted by the freedom offered by intervention by the filmmaker:The level c" the shooting of redundant hounds, the eyewitness accounts, Koppen creates the documentary fomat rn exploring the access that he is given to the lives of his digging out and killing of foxes. authentic and moving portrait of this issues that interest hrm Ano n rs as subjects is testimony to his commitment Supported by a resonant score, this mythical personality. Koppen will simple as that, really."There are no rules", to "unravel people in a positive light", observational documentary will baffle introduce the screening onThursday he says," lf as long as rt's real I do not Koppen is a guest ofthe Festival courlesr you with its honesty superb 72nd and answer questions from the like fake documentariesl' of the Royal Netherlands Etr.y phryaphy and its controversial audience. Slkr will be screened with I/ Koppen is motivated by issues that are of and Holland Film. He will introduce imagei of a'sport' which, increasingly Mon who would kjll l(tchner on Tuesdt direct personal interest to him, for the first screenings of each of his lllms has become a political issue 27th at 8pm. Prix du Public,Vue sur les Docs, example, Ihe Bcu/e of the Seo, a He will be a tutor at the Close Best DocumentarY: NewPort Jovo Marseilles 1992. highly acclaimed lllm of a naval battle in Encounters Laboratory lnternational Film Festival I 998 Film Award, City of Utrecht I 992.

Sunday I 8th 8pm Openlng NiSht Thursday 22nd 9Pm Sundai 25th 7'45pn Tuesdal 27th 8Pm 4 = lives.,. Whilst she does not ident', a well-oiled machine as it churns ot with any one style of filmmaking, the news of the da;r her technique is recognisable by virtue ofthe respect she shows CROSSROADS Holland 1997 E0min 35mm HTLLIE MOLENAAR 'ordinary people'and the way she Dirs, H Molenaar & J van Wljk Hillie IYolenaar left school at l5 and encourages them to express worked as a cleaner, waiLress, themselves in her fllms. lYolenaar bookkeeper and potato-peeler believes that fllmmakers must know before finding her niche as a what they want and be willir.a t documentary fllmmaker in 1974 fight for it, to have an'elephant skin' DATLY NATION when, at the age of 29, she made while maintaining a necessary Holland ZOOO T0min 35mm Dirs, H Molenaar &. J vdn WUk her flrst fllm Protest Gorden She was flexibility. "Directing is a horrible assistant to the legendary Jons lvens job", she says. Molenaar is a guest of After making a series of portraits of before she formed lYolenwiek Film the Festival courtesy of Royal single institutions in the "complex with Joop van Wijk in 1978. Jointly Netherlands Embassy and reality" of Africa, awaro winning they have produced and directed a Holland Film and will act as a directors, Hillie Molenaar and .loop van At an intersection of roads from dozen award winning tutor on the Close Encounters Wijk, now shed light upon the Uganda to Tanzania and from Kenyz documentaries and short fllms Laboratory. She will introduce the successful Kenyan newspaperThe via Rwanda to Zaire, some half mill including The Foctory (l9BO), isinglro first screenings of each of her fllms. Daily Nation. Focussing on the way in refugees from Tutsi-Hutu violence

Hospitol ( I 993) and Crossrocds which it symbolizes the history and stream in to create a boomtown ( I 990). She has since formed her present day reality of post colonial called Benaco,The newcomers - own production company HIY Africa. The Dol/y Notion gives a whose roles in the Rwandan genoc Films ln her youth she thought she revealing view of the biggest and most are unknown - mean big business i could change the world, now all she modern newspaper in East Africa.The a wave of petty crime.A single whi hopes to do is show another point story ofthe newspaper is about the wedding dress, rented out to refug< of view. In her flrst documentary on ongoing wrestle with objectivity and brides, becomes an emblem of abortion she tried to show that the independence as Kenya's only source innocence and hope painting a issue was more complex than \r' of i1-aendent information and is a remarkable portrait of humanity simply taking a pro- or anti- stance. constant reminder of the importance uprooted, but still striving for some Then she went behind the lron ofthe independent press. The film semblance of home.

Curtain where she found no enemy, shows how the editors and iournalists, Gouden Beeld Best Social Political only ordinary people living their printers and street vendors oPerate as Documentary, Dutch Academy Awards I

Sunday I 8th B I 5pm Open ng Night l'londay I 9th 8pm Open nB N Sunday 25th 6p. Londay 25th 5pm 6 7 &* focuses on travel write[ Nicolas MADE IN INIIIA Bouvier, who wrote about his car Switzerland 1999 9lmin 35mm journey from Switzerland to Japan. Dir, Patritria Pldttner Hotel Abyssinie is the story of a grorl The Self Employed of ltalians, then n their 5O's, who Women's chose to remain in Ethiopia after the Assoc at on Second World War: (SEWA), first MAESTRO, MAESTRO! During her trip to South Africa, created in the Herbert vun Karqian Plattner hopes to develop her. I lndi,L ,te of Gujurat, is a unique trade Switzerland 1999 B5min Vid documentary project about Ndebele union, So successful, that current y it has Dir, Patritrid PlattnEr The quality which best describes art. Bringing her insight and sensitvty 2 7 000 members in organised collectves Conductor's baton poised to strike ar Swiss filmmaker: Patricia Plattner: and to bear: she intends to tell the story throughout the sub-continent. SEWA one fist raised vengefully in the air - tl which perhaps explains the behind the image that has come to began as an attempt to assist and image is now parl of the Karajan leger extraordinary sensitivity of her films, reflect the traditional art form in organise lndia's countless poor women, "He could prolong a measure with a is her humility, "When making a film Southern Africa. ln the same way that toiling at home, as street vendors or in the simple movement of the arm, His it is irnportant to have a premrse, a Plattner explored the ssue of self fields,'self-employed' because they have no technique was breathtaking", Christa clear idea of what you are looking empowerment tn Mode ln lndio emp,oyer Regaroless of difererces in Ludwg recalls Ten years after the dea for: but it is equally important to (showing at this Festival) she hopes religious and caste backgrounds, the ofthe Maestro, some ofthe great afti keep your mind open, to observe,to to look at how Ndebele craft SIWA women have created their own who worked with him tell about their isten and not judge.You must not workers have organised themselves network of empowering structures, experiences, the rehearsals, what it wz rmpose your preconception of what in order to proted their interests. including their own bank SEWA also like to work under him as an orchestr the fllm should be about." That is, of course, if that is what she concerns itsef wth ssues of health and conducton his abi ties as a stage direcl Plattner has made both features and finds. Maybe the fllm will end up training & education. lnventive and and businessman, his fascination with t documentaries and all her films being about something completely courageous, these women have stepped latest technology Using archival mater reflect an innate curiosity, her different... out from the shadows and their quiet of rehearsals, classes for conductors ar eagerness to understand other Plattner is a guest ofthe Festival determination is reflected in Plattner's telev s on interviews there emerges tl- peoples'cutures and her love of courtesy of Pro Helvetia, the Arts beartifilly fl,nred, unobt'usive sty e. portrait of a modern individual with n travel. lf there is any continuous Council of Switzerland. She wi-, . sides to h s nature, one of which is tht l.t Di7de, lnd6pendants, Festival Media thread in her fllms it is that they are introduce all screenings of Mode ln forgotten detail that he was a membe nord / sud 1999. Plattne not made in Switzerland. Plattner lndio and the llrn of Moestro, Prime la qualit6 de l'Office Federal de la Hitlers National Socialist Party derives her inspiration from the Moestro! She will act as a tutor on Cukure, D6partement F6d6ral de will introduce the Iirst screening and world at arge.The )wl ond theWhole the Close Encounters Laboratory, I'interieur, 1999 answer questions from the audience, Sunday 8th 8pm Openrng N tht Wednesday 2lst 8 45pm Thursday 22nd 8pm Monday 25th 8pm Pmd Pail. a Pahq: Nyme Con,.t Htottolt Ru Lc s Nod Muehy confidences, so much so that the lllm s as much about the bitter disillusionmenr of the fajled first marriage of the groorr,, as the sweet union of marriage itself "tYy films are unique, they are influenced by the wants and the needs inherent in

the fllm. lYy style evolved and is informed by the subject matter with SYLVANIA WATERs UK /Australia ISSZ ISSS which I am dealing" As a tutor fo\7J - Z x 30min eplsodes VideD "fly ln 1967, as a on the wall", Paul Close Encounters Film Laboratory Executive Pmducer, Paul Wat Watson fllmed Ihe Fcmrly. This new Watson hopes to convey the message WEODINE THE FAMILY You've seen TheTrumon Show You've technique was to become the that filmmakers need to be subversive, to A IN IJK ZOOO g0min Video EdfV Now see the real lhing Sylvonic forerunner of the docu-soap format. probe the stereotypes, to dig beneath Eir: Paul Watson Woters, the original docu-soap, rs a s€ Watson, described by some as the father the surface, to bring the evidence into ls a wedding about a triumph of portrait of the average, dysfunctional, of docu-soaps, dismisses the trend question and to live in the lives of the optimism over experience? As Stuart middle class Australian nuclear family believing that the subversive potential people they are filming. "Documentary is and Anna prepare to tie the knot, their will love to hate Noelene Donaher:tl has been trivialised and "dumbed-down". a very important medium help us to families and friends brood on the unpalatable matriarch antagonist His first docu-soaps had socio-politrcal understand each other Authorship is current state of their own relationships. protagonist, pity her beleaguered and content, they were to be the real life everything,We are not making gilded For some, matrimony is no cause for bullied son and sneer at her hen pecl spoof of drama soaps. Watson's intention lilies, Be innovative. Be childishl' celebration Paul Watson unearths what husband, Go on, get it out ofyour sy: was to use the potential of this format Before becoming a Iilmmake6Watson is going through the minds of the Execr-rtive Producer Paul Watson, accr to explore the human condrtion. was a painten Studying at the Royal people attendrng a church wedding as of being the father of the docu-soap "Documentary fllm must question the College of Art he was part of the pop they are reminded of their own vows, genre says,"None of those films has z status quo and you can only do that if art generation ofthe '50s', "1 found Made over a period of nine months, this father;they're all bastards", He goes o you speak to ordinary people, not myself painting twenty pictures on one film is remarkable for showing both the dismiss many examples of the genre politicians. People need to understand canvass. I wanted movement,time and complexity of peoples' lives and the way because they "dont add to an one another betterl' development, lt seemed natural to direct thev ..s prepared to reveal themselves. understanding of anything". Watson's Watson would prefer to be fllms" Yl SutrParticular says some astonishing original intention was to challenge the remembered for AWedding in the Fomily Paul Watson is a guest of the Festival things about her marriage Walson says status quo,"and you can only do that which unearths the subtext that courtesy of the British Council. He of his role, "We just talk People tell me you speak to ordinary people " ludge permeates a wedding between two very will introduce the flrst screenings of his things. l'm like the wedding guest in the yourself And stay for a chat afterthe ordinary young people.Watson elicits {llms. Ancient lYarinerl' screenrng

Sunday I 8th 8. I 5pm Opening night Tuesday 2fth 6pm Tuesday 27th 5pm Panel: Pau Watson, f1 Pilla, B Go dbattl, S La Wednesday 28th 8pm LAUREN EROENEWALD Audio & Video Equipme Lauren Groenewald began as a radio For lournalist producing programs for Channel Africa Thereafter she ,t [ilG0ullTtR$ moved into television, producing various arts S, th African lnternational Documentary Fllm Fes and socid documentaries iY and became the Acting Executive his tragic death, only,a year after & Documentary Film Laboratory. Producer ofthe Ihe Works She leaving South Africa on an exit corsulted on projects forl;mes permit,The film is made up of MediaTelevision and in 1999 she searching and personal interviews produced and directed Not Nokoso:A and archival material and includes Notlve of Nowhere forTMTV She is a music drawn from the period, partner in Plexus Productions, which Groenewald will present her fllm on specralises in social documentary Monday l9th June at Bpm. Lauren is a guest ofthe Festival and a EABY FATHERs tutor in the Close Encounters 5A lSgS ZTmin Video r# Documentary Film Laboratory Oir, Kethiwe Ngcobo NAT NAKA5A For many South Afrrcan men babies A Native of Nowhere are trophies, proof of their virility, SA l9E1S 59min Video Boby Fothers probes teenage myths Dir, Lauren Eroenewalrj of sexuality through the lives of three ,V(i]l}ON This story transports you from young'men' who unexpectedly have Verwoerdian South Africa and TELEVISION become fathers, examining the values - cc R.g No. CKl9rlAr844€/23.VAT- No. {l2Ol/t5768 Sophiatown in the 50s, to Harlem in of SA youth, trying see to the w^.ld q3 Klool Street, Gardena, CapeTown, E001. P O Box 301 0, Caps Town, 6000 the 60s, under the growing influence as they see it. No tale of doorrqiJ taa Tclr 27-2142-7E27. Fat:- 27-2142t794/..-mall:- .lkln3wOlet.lc..com of lYalcolm X, and the seventh floor gloom, Boby Fothers illustrates how VldcoTapc Edltlng, Oupllcatlng, StrndErd. & Format Tranalsr. CD, DVD & CllpMell of a building in NewYork from which the challenge early parenthood Audlo &Vldoo ror Fllm &TV.TlnF.Code Syslcms,VldcoTskeott, Slo-Mo, Mlx & Oy6r Shoot-leAudlo & Vld.o Playback, Rurhe!-Chek & Pr.!.ntrtlon Sy3lcm6. Vldco Conr.n Nat Nakasa, one of South Africa's propels the lives of three young men Dlgltal Plcture E Sound Crpluro, PTocerslng, Tran3mhslon, Archlvlng, lnlarnrl & W6b 8{ most visionary journalists, plunged to in a new direction.

l4onday l9th Bpm Frrday 30th 5Pm LINDY wlLsI!N Lindy Wi son began lilm ng the forced removals of PeoPle nto segregated THE EUEULETU SEVEF' 'group areas', 5A ZOOD l05min Video \a because she saw that history was be ng Dir, Lindu Wilson removed without trace Wth a This s the story of an ambush At 5am borrowed 6mm camera she shot her on 3rd l"larch 1 985, po ice surrounded ROIJEH RTDE Rrde unravels the evolution ofthe first fi m Crossrocds in 978 Several Crossroads n Gugu etu CapeTown, as 5A ZDDO 5zmin Video culture of m nlbus taxis, amidst the Dir, Dumisani Phakathi years ater in the Lcst Supper ln 'terror sts' planned to attack the 7 25am madness of aparthe d Horstley Street she showed the removal pol ce bus Howeve[ the bus safely Rough Ride takes a personal lourney of one of the ast familes lrom District passes, the terrorists' are sighted and, in of d scovery through the eyes of four THE LIEHT AIIEAII Six She has s nce made several as many mrnutes, seven young men lie proneers of the tax industr;zTogether 5A lS67 l6min Video documentaries and produced the 5- dead ler years lalelre lale i> they reveal the seeds of conflia that Oir, Anthong Thomas partTV series of documentary fi ms, unraveled by a team of young wou d erupt n the minibus blockade A little c assic about the glorious

Unbonned: Ftlms South Afnccns Were Not rnvestigators for the Truth and protests of | 993 that brought South Afr can transportat on system AllowedTo See ln the same yearl 1993, Reconci iation Comm ssion, the r Johannesburg to a standstil The in the heyday of the Nationa party she won awards lorA Troveling Song f nd ngs le at the core of the lllm,The control of transport s/stems was Government. lYade by the and began to write fict on lhrs new genre is a detectrve story, Lies are ntegra to the strateg es of South Department of lnformatron, the fllm course was drsrupted when, for two uncovered, cover-ups identifled, t-Alrica's aoarth depicts three lourneys from coast to years, Wi son attended sessions of the encrypted codes are broken The means I Consequently, interior and shows the vast network l..e Truth ard Reconc lial on Corm ssior, by wh ch the reol truth s uncovered is mu,n for. rt of roads and rai routes to the I She decided to tell the extraordinary the lourney ofthis fi m the true st.ry J rs an r'^'ubsrdr n ndustr al centre, Johannesburg Fil ed story of Ihe Cuguletu Seven This fllm of seven South Africans lts exposra' miniLt5zaxi lleet, lt has grown over wlth the narVe optmism of the 50s, w I be comp eted just in t me for its afrlrms a culture where, yet aga n, truth seven decades, from the illega the fllm abounds wth nostalgic World Premidre at th s Festival on is more compel ng than fiction The operations ofsedans in the 3Os to a references to the GreatTrek as we Wednesday 2lst at 6pm, Lindy Wi son Festival organisers are pleased to host national transport system that carnes retrace the steps made by the wi I introduce this screening, the World Premidre of th s fllm, over 557o of commuters today. Rough Afrikaner forefathers

Wednesday 2 st 5P. Saturday 24th 6p- Satu day I st y 5p. Thrr sdav ?9th 6P. t4 lu l5 f EINEMA VERITE 5UNLE55 lSans SoIeill Defining the Moment France l9Bf l00min f5mm Eanada 1999 l0Zmin Video Dir, fhris Marker Dir, Peter Wintonitrk lnspired and This feature is all about inspiring, Sun/ess is the documentary, a quite the best fasc nating retrospective documentary film takes of some of the century's ever made! It WA'-INE FOR HARVEY BATTU's BIOSCOPE llnest non-flction films, the form of a visual lette6 he[.)e UK ,US l0smin Video l99E Poland 59min 35mm and a ceiebration ofthe contemporary the musings and recollections of an Dir, Stephen Walker Dir, Andrzej Fidgk l..nnes, legacy of the cinema v6rrt6 movement of intelligent, observant and inquisitive festival and market place, appeals A colourful vehicle with an enormo( ^'rst to any fllmmaker the late 50s and early 60sTheVdrite (or man who has been around the world dreaming of inscr ption on the bonnet Battu's -.:overyThe most important player on direct cinema) movement was driven by a and back. He has a sense of humour: Bioscope - rambles along the sun .'e scene is HarveyWeinstein,the make- group of rebel f mmakers tired of nited he's well read and he wants to share scorched lndian roads. Mr Battu is tl ..-:, eak mogul of lYiramax . . . if you can documentaries They wanted to show life with you the wonders he's seen. He's owner of one of 2 OOO mobile ciner iei to see him Stephen Walker followed it realy is: raw gritly and dramatic,They taken note ofthe tiniest details, of in lndia,The as -bur bioscope comprrses of ; fllmmakers through the hustle and were responsible for some of the most apparently insignificant moments that old Soviet projector and a few sheel :-nle of Cannes I998.James Merendino important technological breakthroughs in linger; that he knows make for a of white cloth. Andrze.j Fidyk's team '''cm Los Angeles, hopes his seventh film modern fl mmaking, Parl road movie, part bigger picture.The primary locus is accompanies them from Calcutta, vi: SLC PUNK, about the punk rock scene history, part celebration, Cindmo V6rit6 Tokyo, the people and their customs, fishing villages, snakes hunters' n Sah Lake City will propel him to fame travels across North America and Europe the juxlaposition of the intimate settlements and a leprosarium, to thr YIike Hakata, cans of film on his lap, takes in search ofthe Greats who changed the neighbourhood festivals and robotic d stant Orissa province lhe bus from London. Fellow Londoner lYr Battu has way we see the world We follow technology. Chris Marker is cinema's finally received a permit, rloyd paints his truck as an advert for his after trying c< and nis c'ew on tl'e r own greatest essayist and this dreamy years, Winton . script (about cannabis) and puts his to show lllms to those who dc philosophical and sociological quest for truth:the trtrth of what really sieeping bag in the back Frenchman Erick not even know that cinema exists. M you happened during the V6rit6 revolLrt on, experimental fllm is like nothing Zonca, director of the acclaimed Dreom Battu is going to be their flrn renowned have seen before, it is that rare Wintonick is the director of the . -fe of ^ 'oels, is wary of what success can introduction to civifization, Monufocturing Consent phenomenon - a demanding!}' bringLlting things into perspective, Bcttus Bloscope shows on a double-t rewarding film experience. A llme i.'-titing for Horvey is a comica film about witl Woitrng for Horvey. Special Ecumenical Award, Berlin OutTop 100 of the 2fth Century :-.cess, money and tinsel lnternational Film Festival Gmnd Prix, Strasbourg, 1998 : screens in a fabu double-bill Best Canadian Feature, Festival Courtesy of the French lnstitute in South ous with Golden Spire, San Fransisco, I 999 lnternational Nouveau Medias, Montreal. Africa. :-tus Bloscope Grand Prix, Banf( 1999

Frdev 2l d 6Dm Wednesday 2lst 5Pm ', l3rd 9pm \-dree ' Screens wth Wa t ng Ior Harvey hnel Brenoa Go,cb"n. PaJr Wareoa n Thursday 22nd 5Pm -- :a! st 8pm H,e Molenaal Pat..a Patnei Nek Koppen luly Frrday 3frh 8p. Monday 26th 7.30pm 5 .MAEUS UISION. Holland 1993 90min 35mm AGUS fanada l99B 94min Video nir, Strnia Herman Dolz trir, Paul Jag 9-u1J-L,,t;- This is an For a year a extraordi nary fi m crew fllm about an VISION lo lowed Bret extrao"l inary Hart, fve spect.-. s.OADCAST times' bullfighting RENTALS champion of The film challenges the audience to SALES & SERVICE the World Wrest ing Federat on, hcping lool< beyond the r preconcept on of '"rogus Vision is committed to o digitol revolulion ,here lhose with o vision con creole for an unprecedented ook behind the this varnglorious past me and accept W€ will considsr spsc prci€c$ on thek meril qrcus s The man Ms6! cso. Iorn conr icr: kus r MEhmr lol 021 -{! r$5 scenes What they got was the most bullighting for what rt e-mail: mvisionomwsb co za dramatic story rn the h story ol who grows and loves the bu ls, the wrestling Granted unrque access, strutting torero and his fearJul director Paul lay got beyond the tightly mother the women who sew the mworks . Angel Films . BBC . BigWorld Cinema . Channel 4 guarded wal s of wrest ing mora ity sequ ns and brocade, the bulls, the )al))Fi I ear- Company . Curious Plctures . De Eerste Amsterdamse F lm Associatie p ays As fantasy crosses into rea fe, the feverlsh crowd, the blood, the sweal Domnant 7 . Doxa Productions . etv . Fuze Box fear: the t-ue story of Hart's struggle with Vince the breath the dust, the GCIS. High Road P-oductlons. HIY Flms. Hoya Productions lYcMahon, egendary owner of the fabulous death, the slaughterhouse, con Entertainment . L ght N ght Product ons . L ndy Wilson Producrions WWF, s revealed The clrmax rs the the taxidermist.This film rs a Little Bird Company . Lvezone / Ladida Kine Moves . [4C 4 National Film Board of Canada . NHKJapan Broadcasting Corporation brggest double cross in the history of remarkable portrayal of bravery, of Plexus Productions . Primedia Ltd . Rainbow Circle F lms . Rynrnks Fi rrs pro w'estl rg [l'e awa-d winning man pitt ng himself aga nst beast and SABC . SACOD . Spookasem Productons . StoneHouse Communcatrons of death Recorded Httmon Hort s a fascrnating fllm about the celebration Tradew nds Fi m Corp . TVE good and ev I sacrifce and greed, loyalty with great respect and TVP PolishTelevision nc . Undercurrent F m &TV and betrayal and a man tn a word of craftsmanship the fllm takes L'' moral uncertainty, lighting to keeP a behind the scenes into the utsi v ,t [ilc0ullltns sense of personal dignity and truth that surrounds the fight Festival Offlce: 38ATr^ill Road Observatory 7925 CapeTown Awarded Best of Festival Hot Docs! 1999 Golden Hugo for Best DocumenorY, Tel:+21 4480508 Fax:+2 448 lO55 Gold CameraAward US lnternational Chicago 1994 www,b sworld/encounter-s Film andVideo Festival Best Documentary froia I 994

Satutuay 2,lth 7 lopfr Monddy 9th Panel B g Bad B rcc Shaun Koen Kar en Thor nc Wedncsdnv 2 n Spnl T ,ur sdav 79th 7 30prl IB sOUL IN TORMENT rural people who do not have Zimbabwe 1999 ZEmin Video access to hea'th lac lit es.Tl^is warrr, \ \liEA,i-E i/ir ii !.r:' I &t' ! 5\ I9SS ZEmin Video Oir, Prudence Uriri humorous fllm fol ows the train's Drrs, fraig Mathew & lndependence extraordinary manage[ Lilian Cingo, Ronelle LDots I 980 means peace the medical staff, students and and the end of patients for 3 weeks during 1999, Set in Angola, oppression, Yet 'We are like a big fam ly', laughs Norrotive of soon after the Christiaan Lintnaar the pharn- 't Betrcyol explores celebrations another war begins in 'and like all families we light - but issues of national 'tti.a L:. -ii.i, ;i. Matabeleland, But why when the then we have to sit with the person identity in a 5A / France 2OOO 57min Vider battle for freedom and .justice had over breakfast. lunch and dinner'. , --..y crippled by internal conflrct Oir, Aldo Lee ':-'ier-s been won? Uriri introduces us to a of the "Angolan Group for THEY KTLL : member of the 5'' Brigade, a secret WHY OIO on Peace" meet, on a rooftop This fllm follows Daan Fritz and hir THETR NEIGHBOURs? =j:atron discuss predicament of family and a few other pioneers a: army that planned massacres on Japan l99B 49min Video --anda, to the ' - is in behalf of the newly formed Dir, Kumiko lqarashi = :ountryWhat freedom of they travel northwards the Zimbabwean Government, whose Words can kill.This " : -grt? Are Angolans still perpetuating footsteps of their Boer ancestors deeds still torment him.The fllm fascinat ng and -: :n al will? What went wrong in the who, two hundred years ago, set c examines notions of truth and disturbing : ':^s t on from socialism to democracy? on the GreatTrek which has reconciliation that foreshadow documentary offers a -: .'.' s the Angolan identlty influenced become the founding myth of current events in Zimbabwe unique account of the role of Radro : luropean values and the concept of Afrikaner culture Thus, the 'Choser Yli les Collines in the massacre of :-- African Renaissance? What ls the People' contin-es irs divine n iss or AN AfT OF FAITH - 800 000 people. ln 1994 Rwanda , cn for the future?The contemplative "bringing the light ol civilisation to Ttre Phelorthepa Health Train was torn apart by the attack ofthe :'ds ofthese free-thinkers give shape the heart of darkest Africa". ln l 9! 5A ZOOO Z6min Video Oir, Toni Str Hutu majority upon theTsutsi ruling '-d meaning to the images of war-torn some white farmers decided to Act of l-oith tells the minority, Francois is the flrst to be ..ngola,The fllm examines a society of partic pate in an agricultural released from a prison holding 3000 :rlcentrated pockets ofoil and development project in Northern Phelophepa (Good men accused of genocide. Ht :he - r'n.\rwealth amidst a sea of poverty Mozambique. But the rich Niassa Clean Health) Train only one to admit to murder: His .-: corruption, lands are already occup ed by the that travels to remote tragic story unfolds. ''ctive of Betroyol plays with Whlte Yao, who are dead set agarnst letti ' areas of South Africa bringing Prix ltalia for Current Affairs ^:,er, Block Lond in the programme these rich Afrikaners grab hold of primary health care to impoverished Documentaries 1998. :.^red A/uto Continuo, the lands oftheir ancestors.

Sunday 5pm Soll n Torment & An Ad of Fd lh & why _.tp Screens wth l\l..tal.e alBelrcFi 25th 8 . aoa,..i ot Fo1 .,c I oor. yar-e^. Wednesday 28th 6pm I hey K I The r Ne ghbours? Screen togethe n 5'.ren M Ihe prlgramme named The St ugllle Cont nues ?t tED ' :'ricon Modler examines the G1O$E I]IGOU]IIERS -: :: cnship between white South These four films were commissioned by e.tv -'-:ans and their nannys through :=-onal narrative, interviews with from scripts developed in the - Cfose Encounters Laboratory 1999. :ren and their nannys, as well as =

Sunday25 515pm Monday 9th 6 lopm The f lmmakers will be present at the screeninS to Th,s flm sc.eens w(h A ierle, ro my aouen on Plon discuss their films E l9rh wlh.nd onTLe

15 5.l5pm ISSUES OF FAITH: The Daily Natic trhedules' lsibande The Second Wife TIME CINE 5 lYusic in lslam Altered States OPENING NIGHT Sun [8 8pm Made in lndia 85 The Daily Nation 8. l5pm THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES: 7.45pm The Hunt i: crNE 3 Soul in Torment An Act of Faith OPENING NIGHT u U Why did they kill their Neighbours? 8. I 5pm A Wedding in the Family Bpm The Hunt 'cn 26 6pm ALUTA CONTINUA: 6Pm Crossroads IYon l9 6.30pm A Letter to my Cousin in China 5Pm Romance de Valentia Narrative of a Betrayal The lYan who would kill Kitchner White Farmer: Black Land 8pm Nat Nakasa 8Pm Crossroads Maestro, Maestro! 7.30pm Baby Fathers 8p.

5Pm A Wedding in the Family No Screenings Tue 20 6pm SylvaniaWaters No Screenings 8,30pm CLOSEENCOUNTERS: Bpm siki The Man who would kill Kitchner JG Strydom isVery,Very Dead My African Mother '';ed 28 5pm THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES: The Fight Soul in Torment Lady was a l'4ashoza An Act of Faith Wed 21 6pm Guguletu Seven 5Pm Sunless Why did they kill their Neighbours? 8.45 Maestro. Maestrol 8P. Romance de Valentia BP. Sylvania Waters

Thu 22 6pm ALUTA CONTINUA: 5Pm Sunless -ru 29 5pm Rough Ride Narrative of a Betrayal The Light Ahead White Farmer: Black Land 7.3Opm Hitman Hart 9pm Sikl 8pm lYade in lndia :rr 30 5pm Nat Nakasa Fri )3 5Pm Cin6maV6rrtd No Screenings r Babv Fathers 9Pm Waiting Harvey (Urrn for ! CindmaV6rrte Battu's Bioscope

lat I 5Pm Guguletu Seven Sat24 6p. Rough Ride No Screenings 8Pm Waiting for Harvey The Light Ahead Battu's Bioscope 7,30pm Hitman Hart

Z7 ry SASANI FILM congratulates Shaun Koen is a former title-holder of the all Africa Heavpveight Championship and a formerTag-Team is a wrestler and a wrestling promoter champion. He both The winners of and wants to get kids offthe streets, offdrugs and into sport, '1999 Big Bad Bruce is 205kgs of muscle and likes to hurt people,When he is not lClose Encounters Documentary Film Laboratory beating up people he takes out his frustrations on car chassis's through his panel beating business. Pule Diphare - JG Strijdom is Very Very Dead Ehrcef Cullis is a fllm producer with Stonehouse Communications an! v Cathy Winter - My African Mother media activist. He has produced numerous documentaries including, edu-drama series,'Rhythm and Rights'on human rights and democracy, Eddie Edwards - The Fight Brenda Goldblatt has spent many years working for the foreign media Nokuthula Mazibuko - Lady was a Mashoza including CBS, BBC and Channel Four. She is an Commissioning Editor for e,tv and in a short space of time has done much to promote documentary film ln recognition of your achievement making in South Africa. we would like to contribute to your next project I Abdul Kadar is a Somalian fllmmakerwho is presently in SouthAfrica making a by awarding you - one day on-line and fllm entitled Erront Night, His other films include Secshe//s, Why Me?,Tree of Life two days audio mix, free of charge, andWoter Meons Life. As an African f]lmmaker he has strong views on the impact of colonialism on culture and identity in Africa, as a sign of our commitment Eon Edkins is a fllm director and producer with a particular commitment to to the making of local documentaries. using the power of the audio-visual medium as a tool for development in the region, He is the Series Producer of Londscope of Memory, a collection of fllms that deal with the theme of truth and reconciliation in the region. Cirai Rassool is a Professor in the Department of History atthe University of the Western Cape. it Nyame Goniwe is a development and training consultant and manages rural projects for international donor organisations. IqEar.et Ruiters is the Regional Secretary of the Self Employed Women's Union (SEWU) which was established to negotiate on behalf self-employed women around issues of common concern, Meganthri Pillay is a fllmmaker and Executive member of the Black FiillTnd \, Sasan Stuo,:s .a' z"?3a,'2 Video Makers Association. She has a particular interest in women in media and Telephone -2- " -'):--- 'challenging the form'of documentary film. Sasanr Stuo o; Cao= -:,'. - ' Kar.enThorne is an avid wrestling fan and would be filmmaker: President of Telephone -27 2' :-:2--- Videazimut, an international network of media NGOs. wwwvrdeolab c::.

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